Overview
- Description
- US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany.
Reel 7, Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers. Troops cross a river and attack and capture Cologne, and advance into Germany. Shows war ruins in Julich, Cologne, and other German cities. Parade of troops through ruined cities. German refugees. Sign on wall: "Hitler ist Kaput". Troops advance. Destruction of cities. Fighting, crossing Rhine. Corpsmen treat the wounded. Red Cross ambulances. Ruins. Soldier playing tuba, others relaxing watching the "Rhine Rodeo." 04:10:52 Reel 8 shows an airborne operation. Allied troops cross flooded areas of Holland in landing craft. US Navy, parachutists. Gen. Eisenhower confers with other generals. German soldiers surrender and are interrogated. Shows German war ruins, crying women, dead soldiers, and destroyed and abandoned German war material. Allied troops welcomed, crowds waving and cheering. Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, and others visit a concentration camp and see German atrocities. Liberated concentration camp inmates are loaded aboard ambulances. German civilians with bundles. 04:21:00 Reel 9, More Germans with belongings, fighting each other for food, stealing (anti-German propaganda). Allied soldiers and tanks fight their way through a German city. Fighting. Welcoming Allied soldiers. US and Russian soldiers greet each other in Germany, toasting victory. Stadium, flashbacks show Hitler at a Nazi rally in Berlin. Nazi symbols in Berlin are destroyed, blowing up swastika. - Film Title
-
Lest We Forget
- Duration
- 00:24:00
- Date
-
Production:
1947
- Locale
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Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 04:01:06:00 to 04:25:06:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 4 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 4 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- AMBULANCES ATTACKS BRADLEY, OMAR N. BRIDGES CITIES CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CORPSES DESTRUCTION EISENHOWER, DWIGHT FIGHTING GERMANS GERMANY LIBERATION LUGGAGE MILITARY ADVANCES MILITARY VEHICLES OHRDRUF PATTON, GEORGE PRISONERS (GERMAN) PROPAGANDA RED CROSS RHINE RIVER RIVERS RUBBLE RUINS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (SOVIET) STADIUMS SURRENDER (GERMAN) SURVIVORS SWASTIKAS WOMEN WOUNDED
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from various sources in 1988. Footage was obtained as research for the United States Holocaust Memorial Campaign's promotional video called "A Campaign to Remember" by David Haspel & Associates.
- Note
- Entire film runs 85 minutes. See Story 133, Film ID 156 for Reels 1 through 6 of this documentary. See Stories 33, 3432, and 3433 Film ID 5 for possible duplicate footage.
There are many familiar scenes from Signal Corps reels throughout this film.
USHMM Protection Copy exhibiting signs of wear and tear- there is dropout beginning with colorbars and carrying through the beginning of RG-60.0020. Dropout evident through first two minutes of story. - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- David Haspel & Associates
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1228
Source Archive Number: 111 M 1342 R7-9 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:20
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